The motorsport of drifting is usually performed by small light, agile cars such as the Nissan 240sx, the Mazda RX7 and on occasion the Ford Mustang. It’s widely considered that larger vehicles aren’t good candidates for drifting due to their mass. EMC, a cloud computing and IT solutions company, has decided to challenge this notation by taking a mining truck (a vehicle the size of a house) and getting it sideways. Thus proving that it’s possible to have both scale and agility.

To prove how confident they were that this 200 ton mega diesel could drift, EMC built a closed course containing fragile obstacles. These obstacles included three priceless classic cars: a Shelby Cobra, a BMW M1, and a Corvette C3 Sting Ray, as well as an office desk with computers, and a fish tank containing live fish. The 2000 horsepower diesel successfully drifted around all of them before ending its run with more drifts, donuts and tire smoke in the open area.

What would posses a cloud computing company to perform such a feat? The entire project was a big (pun intended) metaphor for how well EMC can manage data. By drifting a machine the size of a two-story house around priceless and fragile objects, EMC proves they can handle priceless and fragile data without any problem. While this may seem a little extreme it did make an awesome video for us gearheads. Are you now sold on their computing skills, or are you simply impressed with the video?

Is it just us or should this thing be a Transformer?